The dynamic evolutionary history of the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) in the Caribbean revealed by a multigene analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many species with sexual and asexual variants show a pattern of geographic parthenogenesis where asexuals have broader and higher-latitude distribution than sexuals. Because sexual reproduction is often considered a costly evolutionary strategy that is advantageous in the face of selection by coevolving pest...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Verhoeven KJ,Biere A

更新日期：2013-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The highly conserved bHLH (basic Helix-Loop-Helix) domain, found in many transcription factors, has been well characterized separately in Plants, Animals, and Fungi. While conserved, even functionally constrained sites have varied since the Eukarya split. Our research identifies those slightly variable sites...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sailsbery JK,Dean RA

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Morphological diversity among closely related animals can be the result of differing growth patterns. The Australian radiation of agamid lizards (Amphibolurinae) exhibits great ecological and morphological diversity, which they have achieved on a continent-wide scale, in a relatively short period of time (30...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gray JA,Sherratt E,Hutchinson MN,Jones MEH

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although most insect species are specialized on one or few groups of plants, there are phytophagous insects that seem to use virtually any kind of plant as food. Understanding the nature of this ability to feed on a wide repertoire of plants is crucial for the control of pest species and for the elucidation ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Celorio-Mancera Mde L,Wheat CW,Huss M,Vezzi F,Neethiraj R,Reimegård J,Nylin S,Janz N

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitochondria of contemporary organisms contain fewer genes than the ancestral bacteria are predicted to have contained. Because most of the mitochondrial proteins are encoded in the nucleus, the genes would have been transferred from the mitochondrion to the nucleus at some stage of evolution and they mu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kubo N,Fujimoto M,Arimura S,Hirai M,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2008-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenotypic and molecular genetic data often provide conflicting patterns of intraspecific relationships confounding phylogenetic inference, particularly among birds where a variety of environmental factors may influence plumage characters. Among diurnal raptors, the taxonomic relationship of Buteo jamaicensi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hull JM,Mindell DP,Talbot SL,Kay EH,Hoekstra HE,Ernest HB

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Teleost radiation in the oceans required specific physiological adaptations in eggs and early embryos to survive in the hyper-osmotic seawater. Investigating the evolution of aquaporins (AQPs) in these vertebrates should help to elucidate how mechanisms for water homeostasis evolved. The marine teleost gilth...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tingaud-Sequeira A,Chauvigné F,Fabra M,Lozano J,Raldúa D,Cerdà J

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The segmented RNA genome of avian Influenza viruses (AIV) allows genetic reassortment between co-infecting viruses, providing an evolutionary pathway to generate genetic innovation. The genetic diversity (16 haemagglutinin and 9 neuraminidase subtypes) of AIV indicates an extensive reservoir of influenza vir...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lu L,Lycett SJ,Leigh Brown AJ

更新日期：2014-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hypothesis that vertebrates have experienced two ancient, whole genome duplications (WGDs) is of central interest to evolutionary biology and has been implicated in evolution of developmental complexity. Three-way and Four-way paralogy regions in human and other vertebrate genomes are considered as vital...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pervaiz N,Shakeel N,Qasim A,Zehra R,Anwar S,Rana N,Xue Y,Zhang Z,Bao Y,Abbasi AA

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anthropogenic factors can have a major impact on the contemporary distribution of intraspecific genetic diversity. Many freshwater fishes have finely structured and locally adapted populations, but their natural genetic structure can be affected by river engineering schemes across river basins, fish transfer...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bartáková V,Bryja J,Reichard M

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene and genome duplication is the principle creative force in evolution. Recently, protein subcellular relocalization, or neolocalization was proposed as one of the mechanisms responsible for the retention of duplicated genes. This hypothesis received support from the analysis of yeast genomes, but has not ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wang X,Huang Y,Lavrov DV,Gu X

更新日期：2009-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial populations are highly successful at colonizing new habitats and adapting to changing environmental conditions, partly due to their capacity to evolve novel virulence and metabolic pathways in response to stress conditions and to shuffle them by horizontal gene transfer (HGT). A common theme in the...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Fernandez FJ,Garces F,López-Estepa M,Aguilar J,Baldomà L,Coll M,Badia J,Vega MC

更新日期：2011-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many animals live in groups. One proposed reason is that grouping allows cooperative food finding. Group foraging models suggest that grouping could increase food finding rates, but that such group processes could be evolutionarily unstable. These models assume discrete food patches which are fully detectabl...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： van der Post DJ,Semmann D

更新日期：2011-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The eusocial Hymenoptera have radiated across a wide range of thermal environments, exposing them to significant physiological stressors. We reconstructed the evolutionary history of three families of Heat Shock Proteins (Hsp90, Hsp70, Hsp40), the primary molecular chaperones protecting against thermal damag...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nguyen AD,Gotelli NJ,Cahan SH

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of nucleotide substitutions is not constant across the Tree of Life, and departures from a molecular clock have been commonly reported. Within parmelioid lichens, the largest group of macrolichens, large discrepancies in branch lengths between clades were found in previous studies. Using an extended...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lumbsch HT,Hipp AL,Divakar PK,Blanco O,Crespo A

更新日期：2008-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computer-assisted analyses have shown that all bacterial genomes contain a small percentage of open reading frames with a frameshift or in-frame stop codon We report here a comparative analysis of these interrupted coding sequences (ICDSs) in six isolates of M. tuberculosis, two of M. bovis and one of M. afr...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Deshayes C,Perrodou E,Euphrasie D,Frapy E,Poch O,Bifani P,Lecompte O,Reyrat JM

更新日期：2008-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our aim is to understand the evolution of species-rich plant groups that shifted from tropical into cold/temperate biomes. It is well known that climate affects evolutionary processes, such as how fast species diversify, species range shifts, and species distributions. Many plant lineages may have gone extin...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nürk NM,Uribe-Convers S,Gehrke B,Tank DC,Blattner FR

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gene regulatory network involved in tooth morphogenesis has been extremely well described in mammals and its modeling has allowed predictions of variations in regulatory pathway that may have led to evolution of tooth shapes. However, very little is known outside of mammals to understand how this regulat...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Debiais-Thibaud M,Chiori R,Enault S,Oulion S,Germon I,Martinand-Mari C,Casane D,Borday-Birraux V

更新日期：2015-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ependymins were originally defined as fish-specific secreted glycoproteins involved in central nervous system plasticity and memory formation. Subsequent research revealed that these proteins represent a fish-specific lineage of a larger ependymin-related protein family (EPDRs). EPDRs have now been identifie...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： McDougall C,Hammond MJ,Dailey SC,Somorjai IML,Cummins SF,Degnan BM

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Runt-related transcription factor 2 (RUNX2) is a transcription factor essential for skeletal development. Variation within the RUNX2 polyglutamine / polyalanine (QA) repeat is correlated with facial length within orders of placental mammals and is suggested to be a major driver of craniofacial diversity. How...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Newton AH,Feigin CY,Pask AJ

更新日期：2017-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antarctic notothenioids are an impressive adaptive radiation. While they share recent common ancestry with several species-depauperate lineages that exhibit a relictual distribution in areas peripheral to the Southern Ocean, an understanding of their evolutionary origins and biogeographic history is limited ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Near TJ,Dornburg A,Harrington RC,Oliveira C,Pietsch TW,Thacker CE,Satoh TP,Katayama E,Wainwright PC,Eastman JT,Beaulieu JM

更新日期：2015-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Specific host-parasite systems often embody a particular co-distribution phenomenon, in which the parasite's phylogeographic pattern is dependent on its host. In practice, however, both congruent and incongruent phylogeographic patterns between the host and the parasite have been reported. Here, we compared ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lin G,Zhao F,Chen H,Deng X,Su J,Zhang T

更新日期：2014-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite considerable effort, progress in spider molecular systematics has lagged behind many other comparable arthropod groups, thereby hindering family-level resolution, classification, and testing of important macroevolutionary hypotheses. Recently, alternative targeted sequence capture techniques have pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hamilton CA,Lemmon AR,Lemmon EM,Bond JE

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For over 50 years, attempts have been made to introgress agronomically useful traits from Erianthus sect. Ripidium (Tripidium) species into sugarcane based on both genera being part of the 'Saccharum Complex', an interbreeding group of species believed to be involved in the origins of sugarcane. However, rec...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lloyd Evans D,Joshi SV,Wang J

更新日期：2019-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular and genetic analyses conducted in model organisms such as Drosophila and vertebrates, have provided a wealth of information about how networks of transcription factors control the proper development of these species. Much less is known, however, about the evolutionary origin of these elaborated net...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Simionato E,Ledent V,Richards G,Thomas-Chollier M,Kerner P,Coornaert D,Degnan BM,Vervoort M

更新日期：2007-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homeobox genes are the key regulators during development, and they are in general highly conserved with only a few reported cases of rapid evolution. RHOXF2 is an X-linked homeobox gene in primates. It is highly expressed in the testicle and may play an important role in spermatogenesis. As male reproductive...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Niu AL,Wang YQ,Zhang H,Liao CH,Wang JK,Zhang R,Che J,Su B

更新日期：2011-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With more than 100000 living species, mollusks are the second most diverse metazoan phylum. The current taxonomic classification of mollusks recognizes eight classes (Neomeniomorpha, Chaetodermomorpha, Polyplacophora, Monoplacophora, Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, and Scaphopoda) that exhibit very distin...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Osca D,Irisarri I,Todt C,Grande C,Zardoya R

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integron systems are now recognized as important agents of bacterial evolution and are prevalent in most environments. One of the human pathogens known to harbor chromosomal integrons, the Treponema spirochetes are the only clade among spirochete species found to carry integrons. With the recent release of m...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wu YW,Doak TG,Ye Y

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aphids are striking in their prodigious reproductive capacity and reliance on microbial endosymbionts, which provision their hosts with necessary amino acids and provide protection against parasites and heat stress. Perhaps as a result of this bacterial dependence, aphids have limited immune function that ma...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Barribeau SM,Sok D,Gerardo NM

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Timing the origin of human malarias has been a focus of great interest. Previous studies on the mitochondrial genome concluded that Plasmodium in primates, including those parasitic to humans, radiated relatively recently during a process where host switches were common. Those investigations, however, assume...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pacheco MA,Battistuzzi FU,Junge RE,Cornejo OE,Williams CV,Landau I,Rabetafika L,Snounou G,Jones-Engel L,Escalante AA

更新日期：2011-10-12 00:00:00